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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819256803321

Autore

Taylor Becky

Titolo

Another darkness, another dawn : a history of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers / / Becky Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78023-297-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

909.0491497

Soggetti

Romanies - History

Romanies - Origin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Another Darkness, Another Dawn: A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travelers; Imprint Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: In Search of the 'True Gypsy'?; One: Out of the Medieval World; Two: Breaking Bodies, Banishing Bodies; Three: The Dark Enlightenment; Four: Nationalism, Race and Respectability; Five: Into the Flames; Six: A New Dawn?; Afterword; References; Further Reading; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Vilified and marginalized, the Romani people-widely referred to as Gypsies, Roma, and Travelers-are seen as a people without place, either geographically or socially, no matter where they live or what they do. In this new chronological history of the Romani, Another Darkness, Another Dawn demonstrates how their experiences provide a way to understand mainstream society's relationship with outsiders and immigrants. Becky Taylor follows the Gypsies, Roma, and Travelers from their roots in the Indian subcontinent to their travels across the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires to Wes